Thrall vs Subjugate - What's the difference?
thrall | subjugate |
One who is enslaved or under mind control.
* 14th century , ,
* 1915 , ,
(uncountable) The state of being under the control of another person.
* 1864 , ,
* 1889 , ,
* 1911 , ,
A shelf; a stand for barrels, etc.
To forcibly impose obedience or servitude.
As verbs the difference between thrall and subjugate
is that thrall is to make a thrall while subjugate is to forcibly impose obedience or servitude.As a noun thrall
is one who is enslaved or under mind control.thrall
English
Noun
(en noun)- My servant, which that is my thrall by right
- And there were household slaves in golden collars that burned of a plenty there with her, and nine female thralls , and eight male slaves of the Angles that were of gentle birth and battle-captured.
- Go: release him from the thrall of Hautia.
- [Y]our friend, John Edward, is at the other end of the room with his whole soul held in thrall by photographs of other people's relatives.
- In her brain she was dimly conscious of balancing, or striving to balance, the abject shame which had him now in thrall against the one compelling act of courage which had flung him grandly and madly on to the point of danger.